[anotherfootballnut]

First, they both played in the smallest class in middle school. Raceland plays in 1a for high school. Butler County is in 2a.

Second, my point is this. For several years we heard how the Beechwood bunch of 2011 was the favorites due to the winning the small school 8th grade state championship. They never got one in high school. The Williamsburg faithful then proclaimed that they were going to be the team a year or so ago due to all the kids they had that played for the 8th grade state title. They never won one in high school. Then this year of course you have the 2 8th grade state championship teams poised to lose in the second round. It just goes to show that this is not a true indicator of things to come when they get into high school.



My thoughts are the physical changes in the bodies of the boys. Some hit the maturity in middle school and are able to push the others around. Then the smaller ones hit their maturity in high school and catch up. That and of course some has to do with coaching. Kind of like here we have a head coach in middle school that never played a down of football. Then they go into the great hands of one of the winningest coaches in the state in high school.

It takes more than one good class to win a state championship